Improvement in flour-bolts



J. P. AGLER.

' FLOUR BOLTS.

Patented Sept. 12, 1876.

ATTORNEYS.

N. PEILERS( FHOTO-LITHOGRAFHER. WASHINGTON. B C

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIOE.

IMPROVEMENT IN FLOUR-BOLTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 182,092, dated September 12, 1876; application filed May 27, 1876.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN P.-AGLER, of Avoca, in the county of Pottawattamie and State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Flour-Purifier, of which the following is atspecifieation:

My invention consists of the application of draft, suction, or blast of air to a flour bolt or reel, or chest of bolts or reels, for the purpose of purifying the flour at the same time that it is separated from the bran and middlings, by removing the stine, fuzz, and fine clammy dust, thereby improving the color and quantity of the flour. a

Figure 1 is a transverse section of a bolt and chest, with purifying apparatus, applied according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional elevation. Fig. 3 isa detail of the pipe used for admitting and distributing the air.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

a represents the bolt; b, short inlet-pipes for air, connecting with long perforated distributing-pipes, for admitting the air alike all along below the bolt; d, exhaust-passages for the air; 6, air-chamber;f, fans for sucking the air through the bolt-chest; g, spout to dust-room h, slides to regulate the draft, and

ble valves, and suction-fan f, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The inlet-pipes b, distributing-pipes c, passages 01, slides h, chest '0, fan f, and dustspout g, combined with the flour-bolt, substantially as specified.

JOHN P. AGLER. Witnesses:

P. B. HUNT, L. B. WORTH. 

